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Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.

Found in 7214 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence chiefly of the Earls of Wigtown on local and estate affairs., 1619-1812.

 File
Identifier: MS.20772
Scope and Contents

Also included are a copy of a letter, 1606, of John Welch; a copy of a letter, 1711, on the Regalia of Scotland to the Abbot of Ratisbon; letters, 1715, to the Earl Marischal; a letter of, and passport signed by, President James Monroe, 1811; and 4 letters, undated, of Galhart Darguell to the 4th Lord Fleming as Warden of the West Marches.

Dates: 1619-1812.

Correspondence, chiefly of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun, with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun., 1590-1719.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16501-16504
Scope and Contents A few of the early letters are of the 8th Lord Saltoun and William Livingston, portioner of Saltoun, but most are of Fletchers, especially Sir Andrew of Innerpeffer (including a long series to his father), Sir George of Restennet, and Sir Robert of Saltoun. From the end of the seventeenth century the correspondence is mainly of Andrew Fletcher, the Patriot (mostly of 1715-1716, published by Irene J Murray, ‘Miscellany of the Scottish History Society’, volume x, 1965, pages 145-173), and his...
Dates: 1590-1719.

Correspondence chiefly of Thomas Marr and Edward McGegan., 1898-1901.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10567-10568
Scope and Contents

The correspondence concerns past and future summer meetings, and there is a detailed programme for the Edinburgh Summer Meeting of 1899 with a list of excursions and entertainments. Preparations for the Paris Exhibition are mentioned, such as advertising arrangements, and the production of circulars.

Dates: 1898-1901.